28 points
*

Me OMW (on my way) to cut open the cancer treatment machine and put a pellet of cobalt 60 in my mouth:

(The professor did not specify the kind of lab and the kind of equipment)

permalink
report
reply
26 points

In an undergrad electronics lab class, the TA suggested I put the function generator leads on my tongue, and play with the parameters. Obviously I know what an applied DC voltage “tastes” like, but he suggested AC, sweeping the frequency. Sure enough, above a certain frequency (want to say 10s to 100s of Hz?), I couldn’t feel it at all.

Fun stuff.

permalink
report
reply
20 points

I know enough about academia, electrical safety, people and hygiene to find this plausible, reckless, funny and revolting respectively, but not enough about any to know which should win.

permalink
report
parent
reply
10 points

Maybe not the ethidium bromide equipment though.

permalink
report
reply
9 points

I chose the dirty pipettes from the organic chemistry lab!

permalink
report
reply
11 points

permalink
report
parent
reply
12 points

Every year you get warned “dont pipette by mouth” because you will sometimes find some 120 year old lab guide that says “pipette by mouth 13ml of 3M NaOh”. Those og chemists went hard.

permalink
report
parent
reply
9 points

I had both of these in A-level biology somehow. One week we were taught by the ex nurse who was constantly exasperated by us not knowing stuff like how coronary bypass surgeries are performed, and the next a former primary school teacher who would have us doing cutting and sticking exercises on ATP transfer or DNA sequencing. Neither particularly improved our understanding of biology.

permalink
report
reply

Science Memes

!science_memes@mander.xyz

Create post

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.



Rules

  1. Don’t throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.


Sister Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

Community stats

  • 3.3K

    Monthly active users

  • 2.2K

    Posts

  • 7.2K

    Comments